English: Buitenlands nieuws over Nederland en Nederlanders in het Engels | Foreign news in English over The Netherlands

In the mid-1630s, Holland famously went wild about tulips. Nowadays the flowers seem intertwined with Dutch life, windmills, clogs, cheese, and tulips define the Netherlands in a sort of generalized repertory...

Bulb growers built giant greenhouses and waited for orchids to flower. Then they opened the gates and waited for the public. That was 44 million visitors ago. For two months each spring, this floral theme...

If you put the last 50 years of architecture in a blender, and spat it out in building-sized chunks across the skyline, you would probably end up with something that looked a bit like Rotterdam.Experiencing...

Giant buildings equipped with, what appeared to my boyhood mind as massive airplane propellers, were responsible for pumping the sea water out of Holland so the country's territory could be expanded. I suspect...

Much of this comes from the relationship that Dutch parents have with their children. And, from the fact that less pressure is put on them at school. Relations are generally good between parents and children...

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Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe, is partnering with Ho Chi Minh City, a fast-growing megacity in Vietnam.
Despite their evident differences, those two cities have something crucial in common: a constant...

A guide to Freaky Fatwa News: There is a fun new fatwa covered in the news and it goes like this: Mars is haram. Is it one of the many made up fatwa's that have been great fun for the media? We have heard...

The fascinating history of our four-letter words and what it reveals about our past. The word "Fuck" did not exist in England before the fifteenth century and probably arrived from German or Dutch. It meant...

Everybody is getting sick of watching the Dutch winning all the speedskating medals, except those in Orange underwear. A small country with about 15 million people is leading the overall medal race whilst...

Are banks doing "God's work"? This quote from Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, is taken even further by the Dutch. All 90,000 bankers will have to swear to God that "they will do their utmost to maintain...

The expression "Dutch Disease" is used to describe a welfare state with many generous subsidies, grants and transfer payments. Whether it is humane, generous or foolhardy it takes a heavy toll on the economy....

According to the Washington Post its hard to beat the Netherlands at the Olympics, so why not join them? The Dutch in Sochi are a big inviting orange coloured party, with their Royal Family pedaling on orange...

Look at a video of a crazy Dutch tank trial with a Leopard tank. 23 finely dressed men risk their lives in what appears to be a brake test. From full speed the tank halts only yards from the calm, composed...

Is a Dutch Sandwich different from other sandwiches, does it taste good? As a sandwich it is indeed something else and the taste is quite nice especially for companies like Google, Apple and Dell. Unfortunately...

Young children in Oakland US learn about fitness and health through "Double Dutch". "Double Dutch" is a lighting-fast jump rope sport, Oakland used to have competitions for it. A revival of the sport should...

Read about the highlights of a bar crawl in Amsterdam ("one of the most quirky and easy going cities in the world"). Learn about the best places, the crowd, the weirdest drinks and the overall feeling....

Mr. Nederland is a yearly award for honoring a man who has made Nederland a better place to live in. The award was established in 1982 and without all it's winners the Netherlands landscape would look...

For years it was tabou to associate Wilders with Dewinter and his party. Wilders is now a calculating friend, trivialising the former differences, especially about Israel. In his opinion anti-Semitism...

During the German occupation jews were forced to do "voluntary" work in three ghettos in Amsterdam. In a one time payment of 2700 euros they should be compensated for this labour or so claims the Dutch...

With sports the Dutch can be as nationalistic and boisterous as anyone else but with politics they also have a healthy skeptical streak. This streak came to life a few weeks ago when a public debate started...

However the Dutch Foreign Minister opposes a boycott or sanctions against Isreal. The anti-settlement stance means discouraging Dutch companies from doing business with them. There have been several...

The King and Queen of the Netherlands are the coolest Royal Family ever. Sorry England — until Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles are photographed waving glow sticks at Ministry of Sound, I don’t...

Mr Wilders, a zionist, says that in the past he had considered it too big a risk to reach out to the Front National “and maybe it still is”. But having heard Ms Le Pen disown her father’s views—Jean-Marie...

Few museums take the verification of an artist's work more seriously than Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, which treats the display and keeping of their collection with a near religious reverence. And as one of the most...

The reopening of the Rijksmuseum coincides with improvements to the two other stellar museums in the immense public space known as the Museumplein, in the affluent Old South quarter. The enterprises broadcast...

While you can have a very good system, like there has been in Belgium and the Netherlands, in particular, since the early 2000s, people are now starting to ask. 'What about the mentally ill? Should they...

A controversial system of mobile euthanasia units that will travel around the country to respond to the wishes of sick people who wish to end their lives has been launched in the Netherlands. Sick people...

Holland became the first country in the world since Nazi Germany to legalise euthanasia when in 2002 it approved doctor-administered lethal drugs for terminally ill people facing unbearable suffering....

As unattractive as his expressed sentiments may be, they also qualify as free speech, which is why Dutch prosecutors initially dismissed complaints against Mr. Wilders. Prosecuting Mr. Wilders has backfired...

The rise of Wilders in the Netherlands is a cautionary tale for a continent in the midst of a debt crisis and where painful recessions, soaring unemployment and rising apathy among youths are fueling the strongest...

Erlanger (NYT) only interviews those who are the political opponents of Geert Wilders, people who want to see MP Wilders and his party fail. Perhaps the most egregious statement made my Erlanger is, "Mr....

The function of the Tea Party and their European counterparts like the PVV is not to challenge the course of events but to protest their inevitability. They articulate an impotent, shrill and resentful...

The fact that the Dutch had colonized Manhattan to make a profit gave New York a different character than the rest of the English colonies. While many of the other colonies were started for religious...

The Netherlands has successfully held back the sea for centuries and thrived. Dutch officials devised an ingenious network of dams, sluices and barriers called the Deltaworks. Water management in Holland...

Nowhere else in the world will you find such a concentration of operational windmills, not even in other parts of the Netherlands! The nineteen mills at Kinderdijk were built between 1500 and 1740 and they...

In the Netherlands, many churches, Catholic and Protestant, opposed the gay marriage law but never mounted a strong offensive against it. The country’s major Christian parties have shifted. Several recently...

America and the Netherlands have remained two models for religious tolerance in the centuries. With major similarities like the right-wing movements in both America and the Netherlands since the 1990s...

In addition to a focus on trade, the Dutch gave Manhattan a spirit of tolerance. The Netherlands had been the only place in Europe during the seventeenth century where one's religion was not integral...

The Dutch government is facing the threat of legal action if it fails to take swift action on climate change. For years, the Netherlands were seen as an environmentally conscious nation who were among...

Dutch society, and therefore Dutch people, take much pride in being extremely tolerant and anti-racist. Their history proves it; their open policies demonstrate it. Yet there is a huge discrepancy between...

The National character is observant, industrious, calculating, frugal, brave and flegmatic. All these qualities maybe traced, in a greater or less degree, to their peculiar situation, in constant danger...

This soggy eight-and-a-half-mile trek has to be timed just right with the tides, but windy conditions can cause the water level to be too high and unsafe for an on-foot crossing. I realize we’re going...

Road safety minister Mike Penning suggested the Dutch could learn from the British on cycling matters, citing a lower death toll per head of population in Britain. However, this is simply because so many...

Clogs were awarded a CE mark by the European Union in 1999, which indicates that they are suitable for use as safety footwear. Tests indicated that professionally made clogs are actually superior to a steel-reinforced...

For the Dutch, cheese making remains an art that is entrenched in their culture. To this day, traditional cheese markets are still held in the towns of Alkmaar, Gouda, Edam and Woerden. And throughout...

A 24-pound wheel of the cheese currently considered to be the world's best was recently auctioned off for $8,400, or $350 per pound. The cheese was a Dutch Vermeer, a low-fat Gouda, which won the 2012...

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was dominated by intense spiritual needs even after he had renounced formalized religion. Although art historians have recognized an essentially religious motivation for van Gogh's...

The artist's revolutionary use of colour, yellow in particular, may be the defining feature of his life's work, though his ability to evoke intense emotion using the simplest of subjects is perhaps just...

People often travel to Amsterdam to experience the pleasures of cannabis and carnal desires in a tolerant society—the latter in the form of prostitution. By lifting the prohibition on brothels, the Dutch...

Amsterdam's busiest area – the red light district – is getting a makeover as part of a bid by the city's authorities to cut down on the number of sex workers. Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands,...

Amsterdam is to become the first city in the Netherlands where students will be formally banned from smoking marijuana at school. The city’s mayor introduced the law after receiving complaints from teachers...

the Dutch government has in recent years launched a major overhaul of the country's "gedoogbeleid" or tolerance policy on soft drugs in order to combat drug tourism, which has is associated with public...

...the US, have argued that marijuana use is a gateway drug, which means that those who use it will eventually move on to harder drugs. The Netherlands points to itself as evidence against this, as its liberal...

"The flood subject is still very delicate in Zeeland," Rabelink told Xinhua. "This year, I visited couples married for 60 years who speak about an era before and after the flood. I recently spoke to a gentleman...

More than a quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level. The Netherlands has about 1,860 miles of outer-sea dykes and 6,200 miles of river dykes and canal walls. Flood control systems in the Netherlands...

Having spent the past several years living in Amsterdam and researching a book about its history, I now find that virtually anywhere I walk in this city, whose center has been so tenderly and smartly maintained,...

In order to keep Amsterdam clean, the city now hires chronic alcoholics. For every day they turn up at work, the Rainbow Foundation that runs the project gives alcoholics, in addition to beer, 10 euro...

"...the impression on the retina when it first views the strange, intense and feverish work of Vincent van Gogh, that compatriot and unworthy descendant of the old Dutch masters. How far are we from the great...

….the selfish cyclists may have done their country a big favour after all. As you descend stone steps from the entrance to the light- flooded new entrance hall, the monumental scale of a space housing...

Rembrandt remains the only artist for whom an international research team is dedicated to defining and maintaining his oeuvre. About his "exemplary" status as high artist "par excellence". Bookreview...

The new world of the Dutch republic made a profound impression upon the educated opinion of the seventeenth century. Contemporaries were offered the surprising spectacle of a small, newly independent...

This 'Dutch Miracle' was a product of numerous innovations in navigation, manufacturing and finance, which allowed for slaves and slave produce to be transported at greater capacity and at lower cost....

To a Dutchman of the mid-17th century, the history of his country was a history of warfare. If that is the story that Dutchmen told themselves about themselves in the middle of the Golden Age, it is certainly...

Holland is a country where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honour. Where there is more sense than wit, more good nature than good humour and more wealth than pleasure....

At a time when it was easier for a Londoner to travel to Amsterdam than to Lincolnshire, the Narrow Seas were a highway rather than a barrier; and the Dutch impact on English life was enormous.
“When...